Company Overview
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable.
Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.
We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans, cadet instructors, military spouses and partners.
If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network.
Job Description
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Please note this is a full time position working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 7.5 hours per day flexibly between 08:00 - 20:00.
The purpose of this post is to work within a fast-paced Food Testing laboratory, to maintain a clean hygienic working environment within the Ipswich Laboratory, continuous stock control for all working stations for the laboratory to aid with smooth sample processing.
No laboratory experience required, full training will be provided.
Job Responsibilities
* Assist the laboratory in stocking up individual workstations to assist in achieving the optimum production from the laboratory.
* Work aseptically and wear appropriate PPE when in the laboratory.
* Prepare supplement broths, medias and dry pre-poured media ready for use in the laboratory.
* Organisation of stock rooms and help maintain stock rotation.
* Have knowledge of disinfectants and make up daily for in laboratory use.
* Removal of waste from the laboratory throughout the day and maintenance of the hygiene of the internal bins and waste system.
* To be familiar with relevant health and safety legislation and to ensure that all relevant, hazard signs are used when appropriate.
* To carry out any other reasonable tasks as designated by your line manager.
* Help manage deliveries to the business to ensure all incoming goods and consumable items are dealt with promptly.
Qualifications
* 5 or more GCSE’s
* Experience in working in part of a team
* Good organisation and time management
* Good verbal and written communication skills
* Ability to self-motivate
Additional Information
At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.
As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:
* Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
* Company Pension Plan
* Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
* Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
* Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential
* Health Cash Plan
* Health and Wellbeing Programmes
* Free parking
* Worldwide career opportunities
* We also have in place rewards recognising the great work out employees deliver, their dedicated service and celebrating special life events.
What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it’s requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.
Your data
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
We embrace diversity!
Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
Find out more in our career page
https://careers.eurofins.com/
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